Strange bets and spots

Bob Callahan

Bob Callahan

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Over in the Kentucky players thread, Underclocked posted a link to a story where Bucky Bell won 24 gallons of molasses once. I used to know a guy who'd play with one shoe off as a spot--doesn't seem like much, until you play all-night sets, and then it becomes a real pain in the...uh...foot.

What are some strange/crazy stakes/spots you've played or heard of?
 
I once beat a guy from out of town out of a little money. After he was out of money, he said he could give me a box of pocket knives.

My friends thought I was crazy to accompany him to his truck to get paid a box of knives. Looking back now, they're probably right.
 
#Cruncher said:
I once beat a guy from out of town out of a little money. After he was out of money, he said he could give me a box of pocket knives.

My friends thought I was crazy to accompany him to his truck to get paid a box of knives. Looking back now, they're probably right.
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Good knives? *grin*


cuesblues said:
I asked for a wild hole in one pocket.
Didn't get it, but everybody thought it was funny
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I've taken a side pocket with them getting a foot pocket. Head pockets are hard, too.
 
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My dad used to play with a broom stick or the butt of a cue. I remember a story he told me, he was playing a guy and was killing the guy and he wanted to quit. My dad tells him he will play him with a broom stick and whatever the spot already was so the guy agrees. My dad beats him a few more sets and the guy says double or nothing on a foot race outside. My dad takes the guy outside and beats him easily. Needless to say the guy didn't have the money to cover what he had lost so my dad came home with $900 and a big screen TV. Another time here in Phoenix he came home with a Cadillac he beat someone out of. I remember correctly the guy was the owner of a dealership so he let my dad pick one out to settle what he owed.
 
I saw a match where one guy had to chug a beer for every game he won in a set of 9 ahead 9-ball! The other guy kept the match close until he was a little drunk and then put him out of his misery!
 
Bob Callahan said:
Great story. Thanks. Have you read this thread: Playing with a Broomstick?
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Lol no I hadn't seen that before. That's a great story. I've actually seen my dad shoot a game of 9 ball with one hand and a broom stick. And he did not miss one shot. We owned pool halls and he was telling a regular some story probably the one I told and he must not have believed it cuz next thing I knew he was pulling out the broom. The other guy broke and didn't make anything, my dad ran out and looked at the guy and just smiles. People that were there still talk about that when I see them. It's definitely possible. And who could turn down that bet. My ego would have me telling Efren let's go if he said he wanted to play with a broom stick.
 
Cdryden said:
I saw a match where one guy had to chug a beer for every game he won in a set of 9 ahead 9-ball! The other guy kept the match close until he was a little drunk and then put him out of his misery!
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That's good strategy right there. Kinda like the rope-a-dope.
 
At a local pool hall, the owner made the end of a broomstick look like a pool shaft with a tip and everything. So he used to joke to new guys about playing them with a broom stick. he would then pull it out. It would actually play decent.
 
Bob Callahan said:
Over in the Kentucky players thread, Underclocked posted a link to a story where Bucky Bell won 24 gallons of molasses once. I used to know a guy who'd play with one shoe off as a spot--doesn't seem like much, until you play all-night sets, and then it becomes a real pain in the...uh...foot.

What are some strange/crazy stakes/spots you've played or heard of?
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This is not a nice story and I won't try to make my self look any better then I was. I did it and that was that.
I got to playing a guy on a regular basis and I could beat him pretty easily. After a few weeks of us playing off and on this one night he really gets his nose open and goes off for like $1800.00 a lot of money back then for small time pool room action.

I had him on the wire for most of it since we had played so many times in the past. Long story short he can't pay. Turns out he is the manager of a Lafayette Electronics store and tells me to come to the store tomorrow and he will settle up. I get to the store and he gets me aside and tells me to see what I want in the store and he will load it in my truck, what ever I want. I get all kinds of stuff, like twice what he owed me and leave. A few days later he shows up at the pool room and tells me he fixed it on the books but please don't tell anyone about this. That was fine with me and I didn't see him again he stopped coming around.

A few months later I stop in the store and he isn't there. I ask the guy at the counter about him and they all just laugh. Turns out he had been walking out with stock himself and selling it. When he was confronted about it he ran out of the store and the company has been looking for him since.
 
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cuesblues said:
I asked for a wild hole in one pocket.
Didn't get it, but everybody thought it was funny
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Cornbread Red gave the whole side at 1-hole many times on a 5x10
snooker table...to decent pool players.(that's all 3 pockets).
I'm sure he didn't win every time, but I personally never saw him lose.
 
A guy is in a bar with a bunch of his friends. After a while of shooting pool and drinking, he whispers something to his friends. A few minutes later he walks over to the bartender and asks for a shot of tequila. After he takes the shot he says to the bartender,'' I'd like to make a bet with you.'' The bartender replies, ''Sure I'm in a betting mood.'' So the man bets the bartender $1,000 that he can piss in the shot glass placed all the way across the room and fill it up and not spill a drop. The bartender says, ''I'll take that bet.''
So the man walks to the other side of the room and places the shot glass down. He goes back to the bartender and starts pissing. He doesn't even get a drop in. He pisses all over the place. In the bartender's face, all over the barstools and everything. After he was done pissing, the bartender laughed and said, ''You owe me $1,000.'' The man paid the money with a big smile on his face. The bartender asked, ''How come you're so happy?'' The man replied, ''You see those five guys over there by the pool table? I bet them $3000 each that I could piss all over your bar and you'd laugh about it.''
 
the hand span spot

so i have to tell this embarassing as it is. the guy i lost to lurks this forum and no doubt will read this and laugh his ass off. and i am sure he will let me know.
a bunch of us were standing around mr. cues one day and a local guy who shoots pretty good is goofing around and offering guys the 4 out or the hand span. i walk over and joke that he'd have to give me the breaks too. again - i was joking and my buddy knew it. he shoots lights out above me. now everyone grows thier woofing balls and starts telling me i am giant sissy for not taking the bet. mind you this was going on for 20 minutes before i chimed in and no one else took him up.
so then he offers me the hand span again. i don't know what the hell he's talking about so i make him explain. basically after he misses i get to put my hand on the table, any finger at the base of the cue ball and i can move the cue ball anywhere within the radius of my hand. i laugh and tell him it's the gaffiest spot i've heard of but i am intrigued. he tells me i can take either spot and i have to play for at least 50 (i don't bet much cause i aint got much but he knows that's within my comfort zone). i tell him i don't have the cash to that day but who knows.
a few weeks later i see him again and i just got put out of a tournament that my girl is still playing in. i say lets try this hand span. i don't have to tell you where this went. i spent the first four games wildly banging the cue ball around because i figured i could always move it. not a good strategy. by time i figured out i should play my normal game and use the span to simply adjust the position i wanted to play anyway i was 4 games in the hole and as good as my buddy shoots, that is 4 way too many. i lost 7 to 3 thanks to a nice combo, a really good carom and one good out.
there is a sucker born every minute - and that minute i was that sucker:p
 
I didn't touch a table until I turned 21 (drinking age here). I did not usually have much to bet, but I bet when I could. A guy tempted me to up my stakes for more than my usual by telling me - after the break he would remove 4 of my balls from the table (playing 8-ball). I only had to make 3 balls to get to the 8 - How could I loose.
Of course, he left my trouble balls, I could shoot a little, but I couldn't move well enough to get my break outs. He took more than I could afford at that time - I learned a number of things that evening! LOL!

Also at SBE a few years ago saw a match where the better player had to play shirtless (he definitely would not be considered in good shape) in front of that crowd - loved that one!
 
Years and years ago I played in a league that had a guy on one of the teams who was legally blind, and wore those big giant black blind person sunglasses when he was not shooting. A buddy of mine and another guy played even 9 ball for $20 or something with the stipulation they had to shoot wearing the blind guy's sunglasses. It was pretty hilarious how ugly they shot.

The blind guy was the winner because they split his bar tab for use of his big ray charles shades and he was doing shots and had a $80 tab or something, ha ha. One more thing about that blind guy: he could see, but only like 6 inches in front of his face or something. Used the white cane to walk around and everything...but he could actually play surprisingly ok. I mean like a 3 handicap but still...seeing a guy with big shades on and a white cane come tapping into a league match then getting his nose 1 inch away from the cue ball and object ball every shot always got laughs, but then when he beat someone....:D

(honesty time: Yes I lost to the blind guy once, teammates never let me live it down. He had 2 8's on the break to get to the hill and never looked back damnit! :angry: )
 
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